In today's economy, simplicity delivers success!

Ever thought about making your business easier to manage as a way to thrive during the recession?

Probably not. Why? Its because we've been conditioned to believe that business has to get more complicated as management, compliance and technology gets more sophisticated. Nothing could be further from the truth!

It doesn't matter the type of market you're in, the track record shows that 'un-complicating' your business:

1.      multiplies your performance and your profits,

2.      revitalizes the morale of your employees,

3.      makes your work more satisfying, and

4.      increases the sustainability of your business.

This is not a new management fad. Our experience from the early 1990s recession, plus evidence from as far back as the 1940s, including detailed research on European companies by the international consultants McKinsey & Company, shows that businesses with simpler structures, processes and priorities deliver more profit and sustainability through all the economic ups and downs.

What this means for you in the current economic downturn is that making some or all of your business simpler will help you survive and thrive against your competitors and give you alternatives to retrenching key staff members.

To see more evidence of this, I urge you to read the case studies and management tools on this site as well as in the e-Book Simpler Business - A success strategy for tough times . These give examples of businesses of all sizes that have achieved incredible turnarounds and/or growth by applying simple management tools in operations, human resources, marketing, products, finance and strategy.

If your business is going well at the moment but you'd like to know how some simple management tools can make it perform even better, click here for help to simplify for success...

If your business is in financial difficulty right now, or you are heading towards problems in the very near future, click here to see how we have kick-started the turnaround of many companies in the past...with simple tools you can use yourself.

It's a lucky coincidence that the Simpler Business Institute was launched as the global economic crisis was biting into business confidence and profits. This is because the track record of simplification over the past 20 years has been to boost profits in the good times and turn around performance in the tough times.

What we've been missing from this body of knowledge is a collation of the simple management tools that people have used to make these changes.

The Institute focuses on delivering common-sense management techniques to owners and managers who are looking for easier do-it-yourself team methods to run their businesses. We will continue to add more tools over time to build up a comprehensive set of simpler business techniques for those who prefer to avoid costly complications.

Whether you are currently in trouble or growth, subscribe to our free Newsletter to learn how simpler techniques can make a huge difference in business performance. For Membership that costs less over a year than an advisor or consultant costs for a day, you can access the steadily growing Backpack of tools, processes and hand-holding to help you solve your management problems and make your business easier to manage and more successful.

In these economic times, delaying your decision to act can be the difference between survival and failure. Please act now before it's too late - just a small step for you but such a huge impact on your business.

Simply does it!

Ian Dover  PhD CMP FAICD